Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

111 reviews

hannah_and_her_stories's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Dysphoria, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Drug use, and Self harm

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Murder, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Cancer

emelynreads's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Singular. Bold. Self aware. Unapologetic. 

Formatted as letters to friends of the author. We witness Akwaeke's deeply personal writing over the expanse of several life altering events. Emezi's writing holds no comparisons. 

I'm now more than ever excited to read Freshwater.

Do not read without checking warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault and Rape

sundayfever's review

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Unlike any other memoir I've read. Some parts very relatable, some completely otherworldly. A refreshingly different look into an authors life.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

karina_dreamsinwords's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

Brutal, raw, and honest. Emezi's writing captivates no matter what.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia and Sexual assault

eelizabith's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide

octobermontoya's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

Dear Senthuran is such an extraordinary book! Emezi's writing is poetic, powerful, funny, and full of uncomfortable and brutal honesty. this is a trans memoir, a memoir of indigenous cosmologies, a memoir of mental illness - but also not just not being of this world. It's a memoir about transition and transcendence. I read a review that said Emezi is arrogant, but what's wrong with that? Such a stunning piece of work about too many things to list in a review, not for the fainthearted. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

lbelow's review against another edition

5.0

These letters are personal, philosophical, poetic, and rich with emotion. So many of their lines moved me in ways I wasn't prepared for. This isn't a book I'll soon forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Suicide attempt

slimebold's review

reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

namedconquer's review

reflective medium-paced

5.0

"world-bending" - a term used a few times by the author is perhaps the best way to encapsulate these heart-piercing, mindblowing & incredibly audacious letters compiled into a memoir.

It is all the questions & answers you'd find in the sacred space between self & spirit, between human & heavenly. It's a book that really demonstrates how one archives destiny & divinity - practical, not pompous but so poetic in many regards.

What struck me most was how I believed every word regardless of how far-fetched & fantastical it should come across. More than anything it gave me faith that will stretch beyond what is humanly considered possible or acceptable.

I have great respect for Akwaeke Emezi's journey & what they will continue to teach & bend for us so that hopefully we can all access the truth & power of what we really are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Mental illness

passionyoungwrites's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

“What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?” 

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This memoir is written in letters. Mostly to others, but also written to themselves. They spoke on every area of their life. From family past, identity - both gender and body, suicidal ideations, self - acceptance, romantic relationships, friendships, their home life, and even the ups and downs of following purpose to include their journey in the publishing world.

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The author uses this work to explain some of the happenings in their first work, Freshwater, and how it made it into the world. Though it isn’t in a traditional format, it is definitely a great work that helps to shape and mold an image of who Akwaeke is and how they view and shape the world around them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders